Ancient Egypt: Anatomy of a CivilizationPsychology Press, 2006 - 437 pages Completely revised and updated to reflect the latest developments in the field, this second edition of Barry J. Kemp's popular text presents a compelling reassessment of what gave ancient Egypt its distinctive and enduring characteristics. Ranging across Ancient Egyptian material culture, social and economic experiences, and the mindset of its people, the book also includes two new chapters exploring the last ten centuries of Ancient Egyptian civilization and who, in ethnic terms, the ancients were. Fully illustrated, the book draws on both ancient written materials and decades of excavation evidence, transforming our understanding of this remarkable civilization. Broad ranging yet impressively detailed, Kemp's work is an indispensable text for all students of Ancient Egypt. |
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... evidence from ancient Egypt as if I were a botanist looking at species of ferns . Yet I can only make sense of the evidence by accepting that I myself am part of it , and how I join up the fragments depends upon the fact that I am human ...
... evidence has irretrievably gone , ruling out any serious kind of quantification or deep exploration of what brought about changes . What remain are the conventional tools of metaphor and the tradition of arts - and - humanities essay ...
... evidence from the New Kingdom , explore the complex balance that could be achieved when energies were directed peacefully towards refashioning the state and vio- lently towards the conquest of neighbours . I have wanted to convey the ...
... evidence that the figures were used in calculations to assess crop yields , although people must have been very well aware of the consequences of flood levels either much higher or much lower than the average . Modern irrigation in ...
... evidence serves to reinforce the argument that main - crop cereal agriculture was a matter of a single annual crop dependent upon moisture left in the soil after the inundation . The importance of appreciating this is not just that it ...
Contents
Who were the ancient Egyptians? | 19 |
The intellectual foundations of the early state | 60 |
The dynamics of culture | 111 |
The provider state | 161 |
The bureaucratic mind | 163 |
Model communities | 193 |
Intimations of our future | 245 |